Jaimie Ross Quotations

We're flush with revenue and there's no economic crisis. I can't imagine their excuse for not fully funding these programs this year.

We know we have a housing crisis. We know our housing programs are excellent. We have the money to use for housing, which is dedicated for housing, so this should be our banner year.

We have heard it a million times. It is a ridiculous notion. The homes will be priced at whatever the market will bear.

If we can't keep any police officers, and if we can't keep teachers and firefighters, we are going to be a community that can't function.

We are not putting more people in housing with that amount of money, we?re putting fewer people in housing. This is not a move forward in any way.

We've got the House and Senate leadership talking in a way that's different than they did before.

There is nothing that legislators can do this session that is more important than the affordable housing trust fund, allocating full funding from that.

I see this as a banner year for affordable housing.

Real estate prices are so high and people of the low-income pay scale desperately need those public housing units. If they're proceeding cautiously because they do want to serve the population they serve, that's a good thing.

This is the best package we've seen so far. It's a tremendous response to the housing crisis.

There was a time when people could say, 'Oh that's just the Keys,' but it's not just the Keys anymore. We're seeing hyperinflation in property values across the state, so it's affecting police officers, nurses, teachers and other low-paid professionals in a lot of places.

It's fast-lane, bizarre, inexplicable, and I have no answers. We're going backwards in a very big way for no rational reason.

The higher the prices, the more you need housing subsidies, so the system works perfectly unless you divert the money. Then there's a meltdown.